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TIL that the “Twin Pop” popsicle was invented during the great depression so that two children could split one for a nickel.

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epk6k TIL that when Canada's Waterloo Lutheran University needed a new name in 1973, it renamed itself after Wilfrid Laurier. While the country's seventh prime minister had no connection with the school, the newly named Wilfrid Laurier University did not have to change its initials, WLU.
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EgYxp TIL Sir Edward Kelley, an English alchemist, and John Dee, an English Mathematician and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, exchanged wives because of a conversation they claim to have had with angels
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